This week we are going to switch gears a little bit and turn our attention to our peripheral categories. This miniseries will divide up our skaters into forwards and defensemen and take a look at top performers in various categories and which players excel across multiple categories. This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: Multicategory Forwards [...]
We are back at it this week, and going to dive into the fun topic of fourth year breakouts. The mythical fourth year is often pegged as a perfect breakout opportunity, with reason. We have a ton of examples of players who broke out in their fourth year. It might be that it takes most [...]
Now that the dust has settled a bit, I wanted to return to Seattle’s expansion team. There has already been a lot written on their apparent strategy (or lack thereof), from questionable selections to the lack of side deals and asset accrual. At the end of the day the line seems to be that they [...]
Wednesday was a wild one. Signings, trades, you name it. It was a particularly incredible day for goalies. We saw quite a few of them move, several teams swapping out their entire tandems. In light of this I wanted to bring back an article from last summer where I dug into goalies on the move [...]
With Seattle on the brain, we turn to expansion teams. This will be a bit less about Seattle’s current draft list (which is likely to change before opening night) and more about doing a little expectation setting. We will start by digging into our last example of an expansion team entering into the league and [...]
We have arrived at our final four. We are examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were reviewing first round exits. In Part 3 we hit the second round exits. The final four have the largest sample sizes and saw the most success of [...]
Here we are for the third in our four-part series examining what changed for teams and players during their playoff runs. In Part 1, and Part 2 we were examining first round exits. As such there were small sample sizes and disappointing exits that were impacting the data we were looking at. It is harder [...]
We are back for Week 2 of our playoff review series. In week one we took a look at our West Coast and Canadian teams who were eliminated in the first round, and our goal for this week is to do the same out east. We won't focus on matchup results so much as on [...]
Now that we have wrapped up our ‘Most Valuable” series we are going to turn our attention to playoff results. (To review the season’s most valuable players check it out here for centermen, left wings, right wings, defensemen, and goalies). We won't focus on matchup results so much as on what various players accomplished during [...]
Welcome to Part 5 of our original four-part series. We started with the skaters, but it turns out we have easy access to the goalie data as well. We have already covered centermen, left wings, right wings, and defensemen. Our goal is to figure out which players gave the most value to their fantasy teams. [...]
